[aprssig] APRS document in LaTeX

[Georg Lukas]

Hi Erik,

it's nice to see additional activity in this context. I've done a quick
& dirty "reverse engineering" effort with an online PDF converter to
migrate the content from the PDF into a usable source format a few
months ago, but it still needs significant manual cleanup efforts.

You can find the result at https://github.com/ge0rg/aprs101 - I've chosen
ReStructuredText because it's a useful markup format with great tooling
for online technical and protocol documentation, and it's easy to create
HTML as well as printable PDF or other desired formats. A HTML export
can be browsed at https://op-co.de/tmp/APRS101/

The APRS 1.01 specification is quite outdated, and we need to work
through the text, convert it into a clean and editable source format
that gives us a multitude of outputs, and then start extending it with
all the changes that happened in the years after APRS101.PDF was carved
into stone.

I appreciate LaTeX very much, and I've set my own fair share of
publications and theses in it, but ultimately it is best suited to
create documents that will be printed on paper, not quite as much for a
protocol reference specification.

If you can use any of the above reverse-engineered RST for your project,
feel free! If you have the time and capacity to contribute to the RST
version, that would be really awesome!


73 de Georg DO1GL

* Erik Bacon Beck <bacon at tahoma.com> [2022-06-30 02:46]:
> Hi John;
> 
> Right now, I’m trying to reproduce the original document as faithfully as possible. So am particularly interested in getting feedback on situations where that didn’t happen. Mostly content errors, but also typography that could be improved.
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jun 29, 2022, at 17:13, John Ronan <jpronans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > Had you decided on conventions or anything like that for some of the more funky stuff like the Yellow highlighting... also was there anything specific you wanted someone to look at?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > EI7IG
> > 
> > 
> >> On 6/29/22 16:23, Erik Bacon Beck wrote:
> >> Hi all;
> >> 
> >> I am a recent subscriber to this mailing list; hence I just learned today about WB4APR becoming a Silent Key.
> >> 
> >> For my own edification, I had started working on porting the APRS documentation to LaTeX many months ago, working on it sporadically. I am a few chapters in, and would be most glad to contribute what I have written so far with the community.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> Erik
> >> N7FYO
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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